In Thai border town, a Singaporean doctor helps build an emergency care unit
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This article is part of a package produced by a group of final-year undergraduates from Nanyang Technological University's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, for the programme Going Overseas For Advanced Reporting, or Gofar. They reported frIn Thai border town, a Singaporean doctor helps build an emergency care unit
This article is part of a package produced by a group of final-year undergraduates from Nanyang Technological University's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, for the programme Going Overseas For Advanced Reporting, or Gofar. They reported from a town called Mae Sot at the Myanmar-Thailand border in July and August 2025. There, they met migrants and refugees displaced by six decades of civil war in Myanmar and are rebuilding their lives in Thailand.MAE SOT, Thailand - During one of her earlier forays into global healthcare, Singaporean emergency medical doctor Tiah Ling found herself in a small district hospital in Ghana, face to face with a patient whose blood level had dropped to 4 grams per decilitre - far below the normal levels of 11 to 14 gdL.An urgent blood transfusion was needed, but the resource-strapped hospital had no blood bank. The patient had no money to pay for blood transfusions from family members or donors.With no other choice, Dr Tiah turned to oral iron supplements - a far cry from what was required. Read more








